Born:Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (1948-11-26) 26 November 1948 (age 77), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Awards:NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1990), , Australia Prize (1998), , Harvey Prize (1999), , Dickson Prize (2000), , Heineken Prize (2004), , Lasker Award, , Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, , ASCB Public Service Award (2004), , Meyenburg Prize (2006), , L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008), , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009), AIC Gold Medal (2012)
Fields:Molecular biology
Thesis:Sequence studies on bacteriophage ØX174 DNA by transcription (1974)
Website:profiles.ucsf.edu/elizabeth.blackburn
Education:University of Melbourne (BSc), , University of Cambridge (PhD)
Citizenship:Australian and American
Institutions:University of California, Berkeley, , University of California, San Francisco, , Yale University, , MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, , Salk Institute